Wedding photographers and digital pictures...

Note from Tim Bayly: Chris Arsenault and his wife are professional photographers, and Chris just left a very helpful comment below this post on digital wedding photography. I hope our good readers will open the comments under this post and read his comment.

In premarital counseling, I encourage the couple to limit their spending as much as possible on everything except...

Hiring a wedding photographer.

Here's a helpful article pointing out that wedding photographers are one of the last bastions of non-digital photography. I'm a complete convert to digital photography myself. I started with a Canon PowerShot A80 but this year moved to a Canon Powershot S2 IS 5MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom--which I cannot recommend highly enough. Until today, I had not realized what now seems obvious: that wedding photographers don't want to allow their clients to have digital copies of their photos.

Well, read the article for an overview of the subject, as well as recommended questions to ask prospective wedding photographers who promise to take digital pictures. And for the record, I would recommend that anyone who is in the habit of taking pictures on a digital camera hire a wedding photographer who agrees to take digital pictures only.